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Jane Franklin's Spectacles: Or, the Education of Benjamin Franklin's Sister

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Date: Monday, October 7, 2013. 6:00 PM.
Location: Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building 435 Lasuen Mall

Jill Lepore will deliver the Harry Camp Memorial Lecture for 2013-14.  Benjamin Franklin famously wrote the story of his life, the story of a printer's apprentice who runs away to become a statesman and a scientist. In this illustrated lecture, Lepore tells the story of Franklin's long-forgotten sister, Jane, and meditates on what it means to write history not from what can be found, but from what has been lost.  Lepore is a contributing staff writer at The New Yorker, and Professor of American History at Harvard University.

The Impressionist Magic of Claude Debussy: An Evening with the Saint Michael Trio

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Date: Friday, October 4, 2013. 8:00 PM.
Location: Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Heavy-handed, cantankerous, his personal life a wreck, Claude Debussy (1862–1918) nevertheless wrote music of unsurpassed delicacy and refinement. Though he chafed at the label, he became music’s supreme impressionist in a twilight moment of European culture. In this program, The Saint Michael Trio will show you how the Impressionist movement emerged in one of the Trio’s “informances,” featuring slides, commentary, and demonstrations of Debussy’s pathbreaking compositional devices. Works to be performed include Debussy’s Piano Trio in G Major. The Saint Michael Trio Established in 2007, the Saint Michael Trio (Daniel Cher, Michel Flexer, and Russell Hancock) has risen quickly to prominence. Hailed as Silicon Valley’s update to the classical music scene, the trio’s recordings have been applauded in the national press, and the members have received special praise for making their concerts interesting and accessible. In 2008, Saint Michael was named artists-in-residence at Menlo College, where they quickly outgrew the auditorium and established a loyal fanbase. In 2010, they became affiliated artists at Notre Dame de Namur University, and began a partnership with Montalvo Arts Center. Based in Palo Alto, the group now appears nationally, and has become the subject of considerable notoriety because all three artists maintain thriving careers in the tech sector.

America in the Drug Peace Era with Doug Fine

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Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013. 7:30 PM.
Location: Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education

The United States is in the midst of a sea change in drug policy. After forty years and $1 trillion in taxpayer money, the War on Drugs is widely recognized as a failure. While having a negligible impact on supply and demand, America’s longest war has enriched criminal cartels south of the border and resulted in the world’s largest prison population of 2.1 million. More than 100 million Americans have used cannabis, including the last three presidents. This easy-to-grow herb is the largest cash crop in the US, out-earning corn and wheat combined. Today, 55 percent of Americans favor full legalization of adult social use of cannabis, and nearly 80 percent support medical cannabis. Clearly, change is in the air. But what comes next? After the drug war, what will the “drug peace” look like? Does post-alcohol Prohibition history provide a model? Can cannabis benefit the tax base, put small farmers back on the land, and reduce youth access and use? Doug Fine will tackle these questions with eye-opening slides, humorous storytelling, and evidence gathered during his in-the-field investigative journalism. Doug Fine Author; Journalist Doug Fine has reported for the Washington Post, Salon, U.S. News and World Report, Sierra, Wired, Outside, and National Public Radio. He is the author of Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man and Farewell, My Subaru. In 2011, Fine turned his attention to America’s forty-year-old war on drugs, spending the 2011 cannabis growing season shadowing cultivators in Mendocino County. Witnessing the impact of the local legalization of cannabis on the Northern California economy, he extrapolated to a nationwide model in his book Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution.

Local Government 101: A Workshop

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Date: Saturday, September 28, 2013. 1:00 PM.
Location: History Corner (Building 200), Room 002

This fast-paced workshop will introduce you to the ins and outs of local government, presented by Jennifer Hosterman, former mayor and current city manager of Pleasanton. We will focus on the role of government in our communities, the budget process, where revenue comes from and how it is spent, and the role of direct, citizen-initiated, democracy. The workshop will be interactive, so be prepared to participate. Participants will be asked to read three staff reports and engage in a mock City Council meeting. The subjects covered will include: (1) licensing of marijuana dispensaries—should they be approved for location in your town? (2) Walmart is seeking approval to locate in your town—approve or deny? and (3) a very ugly dispute between two neighbors resulting from a city-approved window added to the second story of one home, intruding on the privacy of the other. This workshop is designed for those who plan to become involved in local politics as citizens and office-holders, and for those who are already active. Jennifer Hosterman City Manager, City of Pleasanton, California Jennifer Hosterman was elected Pleasanton’s mayor in 2004, and is the first woman in the city’s history to fill that office. She was re-elected in 2008. As mayor, Hosterman was recognized for having the second most sustainable city in the US (with populations under 100,000). She received a JD from the John F. Kennedy School of Law. Please visit the Continuing Studies page for reading matierals prior to workshop.

Student Concert: Phosphorescent

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Date: Friday, September 27, 2013. 7:30 PM.
Location: Bing Concert Hall

Brooklyn-based indie folk singer, song-writer and producer, Matthew Houck aka: Phosphorescent comes to Bing Concert Hall for a special performance especially selected by and for Stanford Students. Phosphorescent's warm, luminous and beautiful songs embody his Southern pedigree and have a strong foothold in country-rock. He will be performing music from his sixth album, Muchacho, that has been heralded as his best work. Program Music from his latest album Muchacho

An Evening with Fusion Vocalist Hamed Nikpay and Ensemble

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Date: Friday, October 25, 2013. 8:00 PM.
Location: Dinkelspiel Auditorium

Stanford Continuing Studies is pleased to welcome Hamed Nikpay and his ensemble back to campus for a majestic evening of music. At the forefront of experimental music, Nikpay has a passion for his innovative genre that is embedded in his solid knowledge of the fundamentals of Persian music, his ability to perform on numerous Eastern instruments, and his incisive interpretation and selection of Persian poetry for his songs. These artistic abilities have enabled him to create music that is gripping and much admired by enthusiasts of world music. Having learned how to sing at a very young age, he also studied with some of the masters of classical Persian music. His love of Persian music motivated him to learn and play many musical instruments revered in the culture—tar, setar, tanbour, oud, and daf, all of which he plays expertly and soulfully. Nikpay has also performed as a fusion vocalist, and has produced four albums: Solo Passage, All Is Calm, Spellbound, and most recently, Reaching You. His website is hamednikpay.com. (*Photo Credit: Nafis Khani)

Medieval Matters: Medieval Books and Buildings in the Making of Modern France: Viollet-le-Duc and Gaston Paris

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Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013. 7:30 PM.
Location: Geology Corner (Building 320), Room 105

In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and beginning with the July Monarchy of 1830, the makers of modern France turned away from the Greco-Roman past and looked instead to the Middle Ages to create a uniquely French national identity. This involved restoring cathedrals—transforming them from religious shrines into national architectural monuments—as well as locating and editing medieval literary and historical works. The two most prominent figures in this movement were Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, who had a hand in the remaking of every major religious edifice from the 11th-hour rescue of the Vézelay Abbey in 1836, to the restoration of Notre Dame de Paris between 1844 and 1864, and Gaston Paris, the earliest pioneer of Medieval Studies in France. R. Howard Bloch Sterling Professor of French and Chair of the Humanities Program, Yale University Howard Bloch taught at UC Berkeley for twenty years before joining the Yale faculty in 1997. His many books and articles cover a wide range of topics, including medieval literature and social history; legal, economic, familial, and political institutions; humor and the fabliaux; gender and the rise of Western romantic love; and the history of the discipline of Medieval Studies. His most recent book is A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry. Medieval Matters is a series of public lectures co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the Office for Religious Life, the Sarum Seminar, and Stanford Continuing Studies. It explores the relevance of medieval history and culture to understanding the modern world.

Roundtable at Stanford: The new science of happiness

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Date: Friday, October 18, 2013. 9:30 AM.
Location: Maples Pavilion

The science of happiness is a growing and intriguing field. Research about what truly makes people happy is not only surprising, but applicable no matter how much money we make or where we live. Join moderator Katie Couric and a panel of experts in psychology, business, neuroscience and design for a Roundtable discussion about the happiness and sense of well being that elude so many, but are sought by all. Panelists include: John Hennessy, President of Stanford University Jennifer Aaker, professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business Firdaus Dhabhar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences Ian H. Gotlib, director of the Stanford Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory David Kelley, founder of IDEO Sonja Lyubomirsky, director of the Positive Psychology Lab at the University of California Riverside SCHEDULE: Doors open 8:45 a.m.President John Hennessy's Welcome: 9:30 a.m.Roundtable begins at 10 a.m.

History of Science talk by Alexei Grinbaum

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Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013. 5:15 PM.
Location: History Builiding 200, room 30

"Uncanny Valley Explained by Girard's Theory" We propose to explain the curve showing strong revulsion for near-perfect humanoid robots ('uncanny valley") with the help of Girard's mimetic theory.

Convocation

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Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2013. 4:00 PM.
Location: Inner Quad Courtyard

President John Hennessy welcomes new students and their families to Stanford during this formal inauguration of the academic year. Also speaking are Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Harry Elam, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Richard Shaw, and Jessica Anderson '14.

2013 Beckman Symposium: "Growth Control Across Kingdoms"

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Date: Monday, October 14, 2013. 9:00 AM.
Location: Berg Hall, Li Ka Shing Conference Center

This year's symposium topic will be a comparison of growth control in plants and in animals.  Research presentations will be made by some of the world's leading scientists and will include discussions on the topics of chromatin, epigenetics, polarity in development, stem cells, and signaling. SPEAKERS: ALEJANDRO SANCHEZ ALVARADO, DOMINIQUE BERGMANN, MARK ESTELLE, BOB GOLDSTEIN, VENU REDDY GONEHAL, STEVEN JACOBSON, ALLAN SPRADLING, AND JOANNA WYSOCKA The Beckman Center Director, Dr. Lucy Shapiro, and the Symposium Chairs, Dr. Sharon Long and Dr. Roel Nusse, will give the opening remarks.

Stegner Fellows on Writing at the Litquake Literary Festival

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Date: Saturday, October 12, 2013. 3:30 PM.
Location: The Hotel Rex 562 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA

Recent Stegner fellows will discuss the pleasures and pains of writing fiction at the acclaimed Litquake literary festival in San Francisco. The panel discussion will be moderated by Stanford literary scholar Hilton Obenzinger, creator of the long-running “How I Write” lecture series. The panelists are Molly Antopol, whose debut story collection, The UnAmericans, is due from W.W. Norton in 2014, and Scott Hutchins, author of the novel A Working Theory of Love, published by Penguin Press in 2012. Antopol and Hutchins both teach at Stanford.

Live Simulcast of San Francisco Opera's "Falstaff"

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Date: Friday, October 11, 2013. 8:00 PM.
Location: Frost Amphitheater

San Francisco Opera returns to the beloved Frost Amphitheater with Verdi's take on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV. Bryn Terfel, the "definitive" Falstaff of our day (Chicago Tribune), stars in this wistful comedy which will be simulcast live from the War Memorial Opera House to Stanford, projected on a large screen under the stars. Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducts. Music by Giuseppe Verdi and Libretto by Arrigo Boito / Nicola Luisotti, conductor / Olivier Tambosi, director Bryn Terfel, Falstaff / Ainhoa Arteta, Mistress Alice Ford / Heidi Stober, Nannetta /Meredith Arwady, Mistress Quickly / Francesco Demuro, Fenton / Fabio Capitanucci, Ford / Renée Rapier, Mistress Meg Page Sung in Italian with English subtitles Approximate running time: 3 hours, including one intermissions Presenting Sponsors: Tad & Dianne Taube and Koret Foundation

Stanford Engineering Hero Lecture: William J. Perry

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Date: Thursday, October 10, 2013. 7:00 PM.
Location: NVIDIA Auditorium, Huang Engineering Center

Join us on the evening of October 10 for a talk by William J. Perry, former U.S. secretary of defense and a Stanford Engineering Hero. Perry, who is known internationally for his many contributions to international security, will share his thoughts about Energy, National Security and Technology. If you are unable to attend the event in person, we invite you to join us via live webcast, hosted by the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD).  William J. Perry was secretary of defense of the United States from February 1994 to January 1997, deputy secretary of defense from 1993 to 1994 and under secretary of defense for research and engineering from 1977 to 1991. He is known internationally to the arms control community for his many contributions to international security. At Stanford, he is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) and Director of the Preventive Defense Project, and a former co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1997 and was named Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1998. Former Secretary Perry's many other honors include being elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has a BS and MS from Stanford and a PhD from Pennsylvania State University, all in mathematics.

Katherine Boo: Poverty In The Context Of Plenty: Life, Death And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity

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Date: Thursday, October 10, 2013. 5:30 PM.
Location: Dinkelspiel Auditorium

In a talk called, "Poverty In The Context Of Plenty: Life, Death And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity," journalist Katherine Boo will discuss her recent book "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity."

Silicon Valley - The History in Pictures: A Reading & Signing with Mary Wadden

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Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2013. 6:00 PM.
Location: Stanford Bookstore 519 Lasuen Mall (White Plaza)

Silicon Valley has captured the attention and imagination of the general public as it is now the emblem of today’s technology driven life in the same way San Francisco was the poster child for the 1960’s counter culture movement. Now more than ever, people are asking ‘Why is Silicon Valley different than any other place on earth and how did it get to be this way?’ Silicon Valley: The History in Pictures” is an artful and engaging answer to this question, tracking the evolution of Santa Clara Valley from the days of the gold rush through present day. The book contains over 400 photos, old advertisements and artful postcards that are gathered from over 50 sources both public and private. Mary Wadden is a thirty three year old native of Los Altos and attended St. Francis High School. After attending college at University of San Diego, she returned to the Bay Area and is a prominent commercial real estate broker in Silicon Valley, currently serving as an Associate Vice President for Cassidy Turley.

Austria and the Beats. Transnational Connections in Post-1945 Avant-garde Literature.

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Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2013. 12:00 PM.
Location: Pigott Hall, Bldg. 260, Room 252

In his essay “Beating Them to It? The Vienna Group and the Beat Generation” in the volume The Transnational Beat Generation (2012) Jaap van der Bent examines similarities between Beat writers and the so called Vienna Group which existed as a loose collective of five poets from 1954 to 1962. But apart from this group many Austrian writers from the 1960s onwards were influenced by U.S. Beat authors, amongst them Nobel laureate in literature Elfriede Jelinek, Ernst Jandl, Wolfgang Bauer, and younger poets like Christian Ide Hintze and Christian Loidl who founded the Vienna School for Poetry in 1992 which is modelled on the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University. In this lecture a mapping of Austrian writers and particular facets of their works which are connected to American Beat literature will be undertaken.But Austrian traces in U.S. Beat writing will be negotiated as well (William S. Burroughs’ sojourn in Vienna 1936/37; Allen Ginsberg who was several times in Austria, read along with Ernst Jandl at the “International Poetry Incarnation” in London 1965, and taught at the Vienna School for Poetry in 1993/94; and of course Beat poet ruth weiss who spent her childhood in Vienna). Thomas Antonic received his PhD from the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on experimental and contemporary Austrian and German literature and theater, and he is currently working on an extensive research project on the Austrian playwright Wolfgang Bauer, as well as on a project on transnational connections between Austrian avant-garde and Beat literature. He is also a writer of fiction and member of the European artist collective William S. Burroughs Hurts. His recent publications include the edited volumeWolfgang Bauer: Der Geist von San Francisco (with an introduction by Elfriede Jelinek, publisher: Ritter, 2011), a number of scholarly essays, the novel Der Bär im Kaninchenfell (together with Janne Ratia, publisher: Edition Atelier, 2013), and within the artist collective William S. Burroughs Hurts the CD’s Flat Cat Bonfire (2011) and Limits of Control (Absurdia Records, 2013).

Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection - Book Talk with Debora L. Spar

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Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2013. 04:15 PM.
Location: Levinthal Hall - Stanford Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street Stanford

Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man’s world? Debora L. Spar spent most of her life avoiding feminism. Raised after the tumult of the ’60s, she presumed that the gender war was over; she swore to young women that yes, they could have it all. “We thought we could glide into the new era with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow,” she writes. “We were wrong.” Spar should know. One of the first women professors at Harvard Business School, she went on to have three children and became the chair of her department. Now she’s the president of Barnard College, arguably the most important all-women school in the country, an institution firmly committed to feminism. Please join us for this exciting book talk which is part of the Clayman Institute's event series - Redesigning and Redefining Work.  Books will be available for sale before and after the event and Spar will do a brief book signing following the event. 

EXHIBITION: The Rapture

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Date: Ongoing from October 8, 2013 through December 8, 2013. See details for exact dates and times.
Location: 419 Lasuen Mall

The Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University presents The Rapture, on view from October 8 to December 8, with a reception on Friday, October 11, from 5:30-7:30 PM, at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery. This solo exhibition by Joel Leivick, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Photography, features his new photographic works from the Pantheon. The enormously entertaining exhibition of 45 color images is an unexpected surprise and deviation from Leivick’s past work, which has generally been characterized by large format landscape prints in black and white.  While in Italy last autumn as a 2012 Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Leivick had planned a project involving beachfront architecture in Ostia, or, potentially, one centered on gardens in the funky postwar outskirts of Rome.  But on his first day there, taking in the sights of one of his favorite places in Rome, another project emerged: The Pantheon…and particularly its visitors.  During the four days Leivick was on location in the Pantheon, he witnessed visitors steadily flowing in and out of the building.  Men and women, girls and boys, old and young, tourists and locals; most were strangers, all coming together to marvel at the 2,000 year old structure.  The commonality of these visitors, all with focused expressions, wielding their cameras, smart phones, and video cameras, was their intense focus on capturing the perfect digital image representative of their individual perspective of the Pantheon, which left them oblivious to Leivick’s own digital pursuit. Leivick’s photographs, primarily displayed on the walls of the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery except for a choice few framed in plexiglass and aerially suspended in the center of the gallery, aren’t staged or choreographed; they aren’t of people doing incredibly remarkable things, and in fact, the Pantheon itself, the gleaming object in all of their cameras’ eyes, is instead but a backdrop to Leivick’s images.  Leivick’s real conquest was capturing the Pantheon’s patrons in all of their pop-culture glory.  With their Homer Simpson and Sponge Bob t-shirts, their polka dot iPhone cases, and their flashy sunglasses, all of which are juxtaposed against the nearly 2,000 year old Roman temple.  This collection of images is fundamentally a 2012 global time capsule, capturing life as it was on those four October days, paying little attention to humanity’s vanity, but instead highlighting our modern existence in the present while in rapture of our past. Leivick has exhibited in both solo and group shows including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Scott Nichols Gallery and the William Sawyer Gallery, both in San Francisco, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the Emory University Art Gallery, the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among others.  Leivick received his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. He is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Photography, and has been with the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University since 1981.  Leivick teaches photography courses and MFA Graduate Seminars, and he is the author of Carrara: The Marble Quarries of Tuscany, published by the Stanford University Press (1999). VISITOR INFORMATION: Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 AM – 5 PM, and Saturday and Sunday, 1 - 5 PM.  Admission is free.  The Gallery is located in the Stanford campus, off Palm Drive at 419 Lasuen Mall.  Parking is free after 4 PM and all day on weekends. Information:  (650) 723-2842, http://art.stanford.edu.

Operating Room as Theater, Simulation Theater as Operating Room

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Date: Monday, October 7, 2013. 5:30 PM.
Location: Simulation Center on the Ground Floor of LKSC

First in the Fall series of Recombinations! workshops that bring Stanford faculty, students and staff together to discuss and explore the intersections between the arts, humanities and social sciences with medicine and bioscience. This session will be led by David Gaba, MD, Associate Dean, Immersive and Simulation-based Learning, Professor of Anesthesiolgy, Stanford School of Medicine. Light refreshments will be served.
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